Will the Build Pipeline plugin still show the sequence of jobs properly if the jobs are run using Build Flow (including a repeated job)?
Here is pseudocode for our build flow:
build("Package")
build("Deploy", destination: "http://test") // deploy to our test environment
build("IntegrationTests", target: "http://test") // run automated tests
build("Deploy", destination: "http://stage") // deploy to stage
Package will pull code from source control, compile it, and store it as an artifact
Deploy will copy artifacts from the upstream Package job then copy it to the URL provided in the destination parameter
IntegrationTests will run a suite of integration tests against the URL provided in the destination parameter.
Will the Build Pipeline plugin show this pipeline as 4 steps even though the Deploy job is repeated?
Package => Deploy (test) => IntegrationTests => Deploy (stage)
The new solution, which is being adopted with Jenkins 2.0, is the Pipeline plugin. Also, CloudBees open-sourced their Pipeline Stage View plugin which provides a visualization to the Pipeline plugin.
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I want to use the Jenkins "PRQA" plugin, which seems not to have the option to use it from a pipeline. The plugin would run static code analysis and publish the results.
In my case, it requires some preparations that are already done in a pipelinejob. Because of that, I want to include the job into that pipeline, but on the same executor with the data prepared by the pipeline as some kind of inlined job-step.
I have tried to create a job for the PRQA-Plugin-Step and execute this with the build step from the pipeline. But this tries to start the job on a new executor (and stalls because I have only one executor).
pipeline {
agent any
stages {
stage('Build') {
steps {
echo 'Prepare'
}
}
stage('SCA') {
steps {
//Run this without using a new executor with the Environment that exists now
build 'PRQA_Job'
}
}
}
}
What is the correct way to run the job on the same executor with the current working directory.
With specified build 'PRQA_Job' it's not possible to run second job on the same executor (1 job = 1 executor), since main job just waiting for a triggered job to be finished. But you can run another job on the same agent with more than 1 executor to reach workspace from main job.
For a test porpose specify agent name in both jobs: agent 'agent_name_here'
If you want to use plugin functionality for a plugin, which has no native pipeline support, you could try using "step: General Build step" feature for Jenkins Pipelines. You can use the Pipeline Syntax wizzard linked in the Job configuration windows to generate the needed Pipeline description.
If the plugin does not show up in the "step: General Build step" part of Jenkins you can use a separate Job. To copy all the needed files/Data into this second Job you will require to use Archive Artifact/Copy Artifact functionality of Jenkins to save files from your Pipeline build.
For more information on how to sue Archive Artifact/Copy Artifact see https://plugins.jenkins.io/copyartifact/ and
https://www.jenkins.io/doc/pipeline/tour/tests-and-artifacts/
I'm currently using Jenkins FreeStyle Project in my project,trying to migrate to Jenkins Pipeline, but I'm facing some issues:
1) I need to commit jenkinsfile in my project, but my deploy phase is just copy from target/project.war to jboss deployment folder, as shown below:
stage('Deploy') {
steps {
sh 'cp /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/project/project.war /opt/jboss/standalone/deployment/project.war'
}
}
The problem: currently the path is fixed and tomorrow if a change occurs and there is a need to deploy to another machine, An update should be made to the source code which should be avoided. In FreeStyle project i just update the JOB and everything works.
2) The project has 3 modules. The FreeStyle project was configured so that JOB A will call JOB B on finish. In pipeline how can this order be achieved:
- Start JOB A --> JOB B --> JOB C.
You can add the following into your script
1.Issue with copying:
Firstly, you avoid using the actual path(Location of file in workspace) to a
relative Path i.e. using project/*.war or **/*.war it will take it
from the workspace itself.
Second, Coming to the issue that you have
to change the target location like you said you have to change it
FreeStyle Project :) so you have to change it in the
JenkinsFile also :)
2.To call other jobs in your pipeline and the following
build job: 'Job2', parameters: [
new org.jvnet.jenkins.plugins.nodelabelparameter.NodeParameterValue
("TARGET_NODE", "description", nodeName)
]
If it does not have any parameter remove that section out.
There is something called Jenkins workflow which provides more power and control if your interested in it, you can look it up here https://dzone.com/refcardz/continuous-delivery-with-jenkins-workflow?chapter=1
you can use sshPulissher:send build artifacts over ssh
add this code in your jenkins pipeline
and configure your sshServer in manage jenkins
finally your war is transfert in your destination
Prior Jenkins2 I was using Build Pipeline Plugin to build and manually deploy application to server.
Old configuration:
That works great, but I want to use new Jenkins pipeline, generated from groovy script (Jenkinsfile), to create manual step.
So far I came up with input jenkins step.
Used jenkinsfile script:
node {
stage 'Checkout'
// Get some code from repository
stage 'Build'
// Run the build
}
stage 'deployment'
input 'Do you approve deployment?'
node {
//deploy things
}
But this waits for user input, noting that build is not completed. I could add timeout to input, but this won't allow me to pick/trigger a build and deploy it later on:
How can I achive same/similiar result for manual step/trigger with new jenkins-pipeline as prior with Build Pipeline Plugin?
This is a huge gap in the Jenkins Pipeline capabilities IMO. Definitely hard to provide due to the fact that a pipeline is a single job. One solution might be to "archive" the workspace as an "artifact" (tar and archive **/* as 'workspace.tar.gz'), and then have another pipeline copy the artifact and and untar it into the new workspace. This allows the second pipeline to pickup where the previous one left off. Of course there is no way to gauentee that the second pipeline cannot be executed out of turn or more than once. Which is too bad. The Delivery Pipeline Plugin really shines here. You execute a new pipeline right from the view - instead of the first job. Anyway - not much of an answer - but its the path I'm going to try.
EDIT: This plugin looks promising:
https://github.com/jenkinsci/external-workspace-manager-plugin/blob/master/doc/PIPELINE_EXAMPLES.md
I am creating a CI/CD pipeline. I am trying to create a groovy function in order to deploy a build to udeploy.
I know I will need to pass the parameters used in to the function such as:
udeployServer,
component,
artifactDirectory,
version,
deployApplication,
environment and
deployProcess.
I was wondering has anyone tried to implement this or has anyone any idea how I should approach this?
Thanks
I don't know anything about udeploy servers but I do know there is no pipeline plugin for udeploy, which means that you will not have a function such as :
udeploy: server=yourserver component=yourcomponent artifactDirectory=...
However Jenkins allow you to use shell commands inside your groovy pipeline, so you should be able to do pretty much everything you need. So I guess the real question is how do you usually deploy a build to udeploy ? Do you do it via a REST API, do you push a file via FTP, ... ?
Jenkins build will be pretty straightforward, have a look at how to checkout and build using Jenkins pipeline.
An example pipeline could look like :
{
stage 'Build'
def mvnHome = tool 'M3'
sh "${mvnHome}/bin/mvn clean install"
//... Some other stages as needed...
stage 'Deploy'
sh "execute sh deploy script here..."
}
... where you deploy stage could use other plugins to copy files to your server, run REST API requests, etc. While writing a pipeline, have a look at Pipeline Syntax link for a Snippet Generator giving more detailed information about existing plugins.
I'm new to Jenkins. I have a requirement where I need to run part of a job on the Master node and the rest on a slave node.
I tried searching on forums but couldn't find anything related to that. Is it possible to do this?
If not, I'll have to break it into two separate jobs.
EDIT
Basically I have a job that checks out source code from svn, then compiles and builds jar files. After that it's building a wise installer for this application. I'd like to do source code checkout and compilation on the master(Linux) and delegate Wise Installer setup to a Windows slave.
It's definitely easier to do this with two separate jobs; you can make the master job trigger the slave job (or vice versa).
If you publish the files that need to be bundled into the installer as build artifacts from the master build, you can pull them onto the slave via a Jenkins URL and create the installer. Use the "Archive artifacts" post build step in the master build to do this.
The Pipeline Plugin allows you to write jobs that run on multiple slave nodes. You don't even have to go create other separate jobs in Jenkins -- just write another node statement in the Pipeline script and that block will just run on an assigned node. You can specify labels if you want to restrict the type of node it runs on.
For example, this Pipeline script will execute parts of it on two different nodes:
node('linux') {
git url: 'https://github.com/jglick/simple-maven-project-with-tests.git'
sh "make"
step([$class: 'ArtifactArchiver', artifacts: 'build/program', fingerprint: true])
}
node('windows && amd64') {
git url: 'https://github.com/jglick/simple-maven-project-with-tests.git'
sh "mytest.exe"
}
Some more information at the Pipeline plugin tutorial. (Note that it was previously called the Workflow Plugin.)
You can use the Multijob plugin which adds an the idea of a build phase which runs other jobs in parallel as a build step. You can still continue to use the regular freestyle job build and post build options as well